Posted on 06/09/2020 4:26:27 AM PDT by PBRCat
After battling civil unrest and looting last week, a Chicago Police lieutenant described a department “stretched thin,” lacking direction and fearing what could happen next.
In his almost three decades on the job, he’s never seen officers stretched so thin as they were controlling crowds at protests demanding justice for George Floyd and responding to looting, vandalism and violence across the city.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my career. There’s some officers on their 10th day in a row working … 12-hour days,” he said before the weekend.
Chicago Police set up shop in the parking lot at Guaranteed Rate Field, where platoons would be assembled and sent to various neighborhoods.
“Literally, it was ‘Here’s where you’re going.’ It wasn’t ‘Here’s your function, here’s what you are supposed to do, this is what we want you to do.’ It was just go there and be scarecrows,” the lieutenant said. “That’s what they want us to do, go there and be scarecrows. There’s no direction, there’s nothing. It was chaos from the very beginning.”
The lieutenant said Chicago Police leadership should have acted sooner to cancel days off and put more officers on the streets.
“We can Monday-morning quarterback but they should have canceled days off two days earlier. It should have started on Friday. They knew what was coming. Minneapolis, all these other places were having problems, it was definitely coming here.”
“The looters [were] emboldened, they are on a roll, they are getting what they want and we are unable to stop them so we’re letting them have it,” the lieutenant said.
“We [weren’t] really trying to catch anybody because the crowds [were] too big and we don’t want our officers getting separated … and getting hurt. So, the main priority is protecting our officers.”
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Exactly. It would be extremely difficult even if you tried to assemble a more ignorant, corrupt, bungling, unworthy, group of connected patronage scum than the mayor’s administration, city government in general and most of the top ranks of the police department.
Second City Cop Blog is of course interesting reading right now:
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
The latest entry:
Twelve Hour Days Done?
Strong rumor from different police areas that Tuesday will be the last day of twelve-hour-days.
Hopefully, true, because everyone looks and feels like the walking dead.
Keep your ears open today.
Also worth looking at is HeyJackass!, the Chicago murder stats page:
Of course they had a big spike a week ago.
Chicago was unprepared because there were many people working within the system who were supporting the other side. The police were out maneuvered. Spies within the city government were giving information to the other side. The rules of engagement handcuffed the police. The police were mere unwilling actors in the CNN play that was being performed to kill the economy and to stop the black population from voting for Trump.
Forget the recent riots, just look at these cities that rioted for Hillary Clinton leading up to the 2016 election.
true dat.
How could he not have known. It’s been played out time and time and time again and no one is punished for it.
It was their typical weekend on steroids.
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